Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

i kind of get the feeling mitt romney just doesn't like other people.

I'm hoping for some good ol' "WWII was a Democrat war" or "Poland is not dominated by the USSR" kind of lines.

Funny how there have been two debates where Poland has been the subject of memorable lines.

reagan 'i won't use my opponents youth against him' line against supposedly defused age issue. also 'i paid for that microphone' showed that other republicans in 80 primary were pussies and if reagan was gonna have to rip his opponents hearts out and shove them down their childrens throats he was totally willing to go there. not in a debate but reagan's 'a recession is when yr neighbor is out of a job. a depression is when you are out of a job. and a recovery is when jimmy carter is out of a job!' quip is one i'm kinda amazed romney hasn't repurposed if only to play up obama=carter comparison. adm. stockdale's 'who am i? why am i here?' zinger was pretty good.

hey john kerry, wanna buy some wood?

i wonder what % of the electorate even knows who jimmy carter is much less why he is so bad and hated

if you unskew the numbers 100%

phew

the other weird thing about 'there you go again' is that he says 'GOVERNOR, there you go again!' to carter. i wonder how many ppl thought 'oh, burn!' and how many ppl thought 'did he forget who he was talking to again?'

the JFK burn was pretty sweet

lol just watched this. wow rick perry really was one of the kind. also seeing quayle-bentsen clip for first time since 88 it's pretty amazing to see this look of 'OMG YES' come over bentsen's face as soon as quayle mentions kennedy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mK554srzuk

lol bushs lil nod to gore

was it bush senior who looked at his watch?

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2012/1003/20121003_125552_cd03iconic3_200.jpg

While Mondale doesn't zing him, I loved how he provoked Reagan into one of the few flashes of anger he showed at president. Watch his face when he realizes the audience is clapping FOR Mondale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rz10ReGx1k

rick perry is like someone doing an impression of will ferrell's impression of bush

Are they always going to have the navy blue backdrop for debates? I liked the sky blue curtains from 1980.

well uh this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It0Dtm1gFFQ

interesting example alfred

slow fucking work computer

there you go again, alfred.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-HqHSkYG-Y
GEE I WONDER WHY

"He allegedly attends Harvard University"

not in a debate but reagan's 'a recession is when yr neighbor is out of a job. a depression is when you are out of a job. and a recovery is when jimmy carter is out of a job!' quip

yeah -- a distant cousin to Governor Reagan's dismissal of hippies: "A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane, and smells like Cheetah."

Making these guys tip their hands is always more fun than any zing

OBAMA BANNED THIS VIDEO

lol kinda funny in retrospect that mondale was entirely otm about reagan deploying 'there you go again' to deny plans to do something he would then go on to do after the election

lol does tucker carlson know about this????

haha does anyone know if daily show had time to react to BOMBSHELL VIDEO featuring THAT ANGER and THAT ACCENT? don't really watch daily show much anymore (don't have cable) but always have time for jon stewart going off on tucker carlson.

t-n coates' theory is that stewart whupping carlson has sent the latter into his current breitbart-manque tailspin. interesting theory.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/tucker-carlson-fails-at-trolling/263177/

Carlson's descent from reasonably credible magazine journalist to inept race hustler is well mapped territory. He has not been the same man since Jon Stewart took him down. The ethering reverberates through the years with such force that we now find its recipient slathering yesterday's nothing-burgers in weak sauce, and serving them up as the daily special.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/03/obama-leads-but-a-romney-comeback-might-start-out-west-with-colorado/#more-35419

A really good buddy of mine from college was interviewed as part of this analysis; he gets one direct quote

GOP satraps shake their heads:

DENVER — Tuesday night’s Drudge-led revival of a 2007 Barack Obama speech offered satisfaction to a core of conservatives who believe it exposed Obama’s secret radicalism and racial politics — but that view was far from universal among Republican strategists, many of whom wrung their hands over the high-profile video, which also ran on Fox News and The Daily Caller.

“This hurts Mitt,” said 2008 Romney consultant Alex Castellanos, who has at times been a harsh critic of his current campaign. “Mitt's window to turn the economic debate around is [Wednesday.] And his alleged supporters just shit on it. An abysmally selfish and stupid event.”

Castellanos wasn’t the only one to break ranks Tuesday.

“I [don’t] think this tape will persuade anyone. A cover up in Libya, a failing economy, and $16 trillion in debt are persuasive,” RedState Editor in Chief Erick Erickson tweeted late Tuesday.

“So, what new information do we have? That Obama's "I barely knew Rev Wright" was a lie? Sorry, already knew that,” tweeted Florida GOP consultant Rick Wilson.

Former McCain and Huntsman campaign manager John Weaver said attempts to use the video to energize the base are just another missed opportunity.

“Is the base Romney's problem?” he asked late Tuesday night. “I would hope he would, at least, ignore this. Instead, how about a detailed, believable economic plan focused on job creation? We're running against a guy with more than eight percent unemployed, etc. and instead of offering a counter plan for consumers to chose between, some are focused on the President being Black and liberal.”

http://www.buzzfeed.com/zekejmiller/republicans-fret-over-obama-tape-resurrection

haha that tnc sentence is such an amazing mixed metaphor i dont really even mind

'i paid for that microphone' was a quote from Frank Capra/Spencer Tracy film btw

haha i know! "The ethering reverberates through the years", so good

oh I was concentrating on the nothing burger slathered with weak sauce: it's after four.

that one takes two unrelated phrases and makes some sense out of them!

yeah but I'm hungry

i live in "bellweather" arapahoe county. i've had two separate democratic gotv efforts come by my suburban door. no republican efforts. i haven't seen too much romney enthusiasm exhibited. some anti-kenyan socialism shit though.

“Mitt's window to turn the economic debate around is [Wednesday.] And his alleged supporters just shit on it. An abysmally selfish and stupid event.”

Surprisingly blunt.

well, he's Cuban-American.

what an advantage being latino is

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/81973.html

Politico.

They're affecting an air of nonchalance because who the fuck cares.

He should have spent the last two months studying Young Money punchlines.

"Under Obama, the only new jobs are ones where you ask "Paper or plastic?"/ Grocery Bag!"

lol at freudian slip

Sigh

omg lol

ha i posted that in wrong thread